Data Scientist, Product

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Data Scientist role at Meta focused on product development, leveraging quantitative analysis, data mining, and machine learning to understand user interactions and inform product decisions. The role involves forecasting business trends and partnering with product and engineering teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collect, organize, interpret, and summarize statistical data in order to contribute to the design and development of Meta products.
  2. Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, machine learning, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with both our consumer and business products.
  3. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.
  4. Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches.
  5. May be assigned projects in various areas including, but not limited to, product operations, exploratory analysis, product influence, and data infrastructure.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences, or a related field
  • 6 months of work experience in the job offered or in a computer or risk management related occupation
  • Performing quantitative analysis including data mining on highly complex data sets
  • Data querying language: SQL
  • Scripting language: Python
  • Statistical or mathematical software including one of the following: R, SAS, or Matlab
  • Applied statistics or experimentation, such as A/B testing, in an industry setting
  • Machine learning techniques
  • Relational databases
  • Quantitative analysis techniques, including one of the following: clustering, regression, pattern recognition, or descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Version control systems: Git
  • Designing and developing dashboards to monitor metrics
  • Deep learning techniques, optimization and heuristics
  • Risk management, including fraud detection and risk monitoring

Other signals

  • Forecasting business trends using quantitative analysis and machine learning techniques
  • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
  • Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches